The author, Annie Leonard, mentioned two cases linked to consumption, which rarely consider. Spoken planned and the obsolescence of aging perceived.
The planned obsolescence is the process that many designers use, designers, etc ..., which makes them talk about how fast the objects (do not call fetishes, then so what I say) may have problems or break easily, but should leave the Minimum consumer confidence in order to allow covering the same product. With the happiness of the company, the press in that direction, for telling it in Quick-and-dirty way.

Much of our world at the moment is designed in this way. Here and there, however, are starting to appear signs of a reflection on the mode of production.
I am more and more projects of designers and artists who depart from recycled materials, or carrying their items so that they can have a second chance, finished their life cycle as the product.
Especially in sectors that produce goods in most luxuries, not strictly consumer awareness of the impact of their work is even more significant.
It is inspired by the work of bees to the draft which says Think Big Chief:

Maybe you have heard or read somewhere that bees are finding many difficulties to survive. That's why Stanley Honey thanks to the creative The Partners has produced this re-usable jar that once you have consumed the product is useful for planting a flower and facilitate the work of our friends workers.

Uses old inner tubes and tires of the bicycle, the young designer Jan Willem van Breugel. He writes so Ecoblog:

After traveling in Africa on a bike decided to use his experience on the design of useful objects made from scrap materials.
And to show and sell his projects has put up a site name dall'emblematico wheels on fire where you can see all its production and perhaps order a piece.
So by intrecci strips of tires were born bedside tables, chairs, chests, bags, backpacks and key rings. While the rims has shaped up to make lamps.

Also from inner tubes has produced his latest product, the Hell's Kitchen, tells how Nextmoto:

Not the end to surprise the forge of ideas that Hell's Kitchen is still churning in products 100% recyclable, made from materials and objects in turn recycled.
An important and essential philosophy that has managed to do a good habit (to recycle) a movement that some people, a lifestyle, a peak of design.
"If a larva can become a butterfly, if a parasite can become a pearl, if a piece of coal can become a diamond, but especially if sfiga of the hole can become a rubber ... here's an idea that even a room d ' suddenly becomes an air bag. Rather a collection of bags. "
This is what we read in the intro of the website of Hell's Kitchen, and is respected throughout.
Hell's Kitchen 100% Recycle Chic!
In addition to stock exchanges, has now released the new helmet of Hell's Kitchen, which is nothing short of brilliant: covered with old rooms d 'air of motorcycles, cars, tractors, buses, and more, the new helmet was assembled entirely from materials waste.
Sure it is secure?
Certainly that is. And, besides being safe, it is also waterproof and resistant.

Remaining in products for the outdoor life, Stylosophy describes the final product of Patagonia, a brand that has an attention to the guidelines of its productions:

The Storm of Patagonia Jacket is made with recycled polyester and through the Common Threads Recycling Program will be recycled again. Dress so ecological, respecting the environment you can really. And he knows the brand Patagonia, which has long used materials such as batteries, which comes from the recycling of plastic bottles or organic cotton, grown without the use of pesticides.
The Storm of Patagonia Jacket is waterproof and the fabric is breathable. The outer side is resistant, while the interior is made with taffeta lining of polyester is also recycled.

It is dedicated to interior decorating one of the projects presented at the Re-creation (who writes on this point must admit it was very difficult to choose a job among those offered, the blog is entirely devoted to projects of creative reuse of materials, and work is always very interesting both from an aesthetic point of view that from the point of view materials used, and choose only one among many exciting ideas was not easy):

The skin of a bear lying on the ground, even if it makes a lot of Donald Duck cartoon at a time when Disney was not as good, is the most anti ecological exists. Poor beast.
The spirit of invention designer Lise Lefebvre is ecologissima This is a faux leather belt bear instead of the poor animal to be lying on the ground is an old blanket lisa.

But the art of recovery can also deploy on large scale as in the case of the Jamsil Sports Complex in Korea:

A stadium entirely covered with tents packed with pieces of torn plastic to landfills.
It took more than 75,000 kilos of plastic - to be precise, 1,763,360 pieces - carried by 488 trucks. We have 3638 people worked for 40 days.
And at the end of the Jamsil Sports Complex was no longer the same.

In art, art with recycled materials has countless examples, but among those mentioned in the blogosphere lately perhaps the most striking is the work of an elderly Japanese gentleman, Masataka Koike. Says Lorenzo Cairoli:

In a post in April raccontai the unique undertaking a Japanese worker, Shuhei Ogawara, that more of seven sticks gathered in the cafeteria of the factory was built a delightful canoe 4 meters long and weighing 30 kilograms. The two years it took to collect all the sticks and put them up for three months and form the backbone of the canoe. The seventy Masataka Koike, an artist in love with marine life, is the use of disposable wooden chopsticks of the Japanese, the waribashi, to achieve an extraordinary polyp. Eight months of work Carthusian, more than 2,000 thousand used chopsticks.